The Daily Bruin

The second annual Bruin Heritage Week, sponsored by the Bruin Heritage Society, is coming Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. More information will be provided soon.

Please join the chemistry department to celebrate its new 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer. The celebration will be on the third floor of EHS and will last from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, with the official dedication at 5:15 p.m. Light snacks and drinks will be served.

The university community is invited to a Peace and Justice Symposium from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the Murdock Learning Resource Center.  Refreshments will be provided beginning at 7:15 p.m.

Melanie Hulbert (Sociology) and Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) will share how they implement peace and justice in their disciplines, in their families and in their lives.

Greenroom begins Friday, Sept. 18 from 10:40-11:30 a.m. Greenroom is a time of student-led worship and fellowship. It’s a great way to end the busy week and begin a blessed weekend.

Please note: This week Greenroom will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

The Crescent is hiring experienced writers as reporters for the 2008-2009 school year. This is a chance to get your work printed in a publication and build your resume.

Journalism experience desired.  This is a paid position.

Email crescent@georgefox.edu for more information.

Serve Day organizers wish to send a congratulations to prize winners for the Serve Day Activities Fair drawing. Winners may pick up their prizes at the Office of Spiritual Life. Please congratulate the following:

• Morgan Davie (a new 80GB Classic iPod), complimentary of the University Store
• Sarah Hoffman (iTunes gift card)
• Fred Liddell (iTunes gift card)
• Terah Pugh (iTunes gift card)
• Brittany Murray (University Store gift certificate)
• Mary Lane (University Store gift certificate)
• Alicia Orlob (University Store gift certificate)

Attention Sophomores!

Friday, Sept. 19 from 8-10 p.m. will be the first Evening of Black and White in the Stevens Center. Come for great music, good food, great prizes, and conversation. Semi-formal attire in black and white is encouraged. This event is free!

Saturday, Sept. 20 at 10:30 a.m. a Pancake Feed will be held in the Stevens Center followed by thoughts from Neal Ninteman on life calling and vocation. Stick around for workshops on internships, study abroad, and discernment.

Questions? Email sophomore@georgefox.edu.

Faculty and staff will gather for an in-service session from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Lemmons 8. Alex Pia, Martha Iancu and Thomas Peng will facilitate a discussion on working with international students.

To help celebrate the arrival of a new deep fryer and to help satisfy the craving of many who have had to go without for the past four weeks, Bon Appetit will be giving away free french fries this Friday, Sept. 19, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Bruin Den. Many thanks to Mike Radar, who has expedited the process and got us back up and running.

Don’t leave George Fox without an internship.

Come to Career Services (located on the second floor of Stevens) Friday, Sept. 19 from noon-1 p.m. and find out how an internship may hold the keys to your best future.

Unlock your dreams. Unlock employment opportunities. Unlock experience. Unlock great rewards through internship.

Please register at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/career_services/rsvp/PizzaChatI.html by 10 a.m. Friday.

It’s not too late or too early to take advantage of Optimal Resume, an online suite of job-search preparation tools. Optimal Resume is available to George Fox students for their entire time at Fox plus six months for only $25.00.

Join Darren Noble in the Bruin Den Thursday, Sept. 18 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Bring your lunch and spend some time learning to use Optimal Resume. You’ll be glad you did and so will we!

For more information, call Career Services at ext. 2330.

Greenroom worship service will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium this week. Come and join us Friday, September 19 at 10:40 a.m.

Should you consider purchasing long-term care insurance? You will get the opportunity to better answer this question by attending an upcoming meeting or webinar hosted by LTC Solutions, a long-term care insurance company.

With the cost of health care outpacing inflation and people living longer, people are becoming increasingly concerned about their ability to fund their retirement and long-term care needs. A long-term care policy can help protect assets, minimize dependence on family members, and control how someone receives nursing or home care.

A series of informational meetings have been scheduled. Employees attending any of the group meetings in Newberg or Portland are eligible for an iPod Touch drawing hosted by the University Store. Employees from Boise, Salem and Redmond who participate by joining the webinar also will be included in the drawing.

Following is the meetings schedule:

Friday, Oct. 3, noon to 1 p.m., Cap and Gown Room (sandwich provided)
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 9-10 a.m., VAC 117 (bagels provided)
Thursday, Oct. 9, 7-8 p.m., Hoover 102 (snack provided)
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 10-11 a.m. webinar (access instructions to come)
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Portland 155 (sandwich provided)

For more information, contact LTC Solutions at 1-877-286-2852. To see a video about long-term care insurance, visit this link on the LTC Solutions site.

The campus community is invited to join Ed Gierok (Security) for an informal talk session on “Staying safe on and off campus — tips and hints from your security services department.” The session is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in the Cap and Gown Room. There also will be a chance to win $5 coffee cards.

Stay tuned for additional topics such as ID theft, binge drinking, etc. to be presented in the following weeks.

– Security Services

Career Services is hosting an internship and volunteer fair from 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Hoover Atrium. The event will provide students with an opportunity to find internships and gain work experience. Refreshments will be provided, and students are encouraged to bring their resumes.

Because HR/payroll will be going live with PeopleSoft on Oct. 1, the Sept. 30 payroll will have to be finalized several days early to have time to convert the data from IFAS into PeopleSoft and check it for accuracy before Oct. 1. This means the payroll data entry deadline for this payroll will be earlier than usual.

If you have any paperwork to submit for the Sept. 30 pay day, it must be in HR no later than Thursday, Sept. 18. This includes  an overload or adjunct contract, a new W-4, retirement plan payroll reduction authorization, a direct deposit form, etc. Supervisors, any Personnel Change Forms that would impact an employee’s pay should also be submitted (with all signatures) by Thursday as well.

Forms can be faxed to HR at 503-554-2186 if you are not on the Newberg campus. Newberg campus employees, please deliver documents to HR; please do not put them in campus mail. Paperwork received after Thursday will not be processed until the October payroll.

Thank you,
Human Resources

Kristin Bontrager joined the math, engineering and computer science department to serve as an administrative assistant. During the past year, she has moved between Oregon and Tennessee, working as president and chef for The Mustard Seed Catering Company and as an office assistant and physical education teacher at C.S. Lewis Academy in Newberg. She was previously an administrator and physical education teacher at Willow Hall Academy in Franklin, Tenn., in 2006-07. Kristin earned a degree in medical assisting from Skadron College in San Bernadino, Calif., in 1994. She lives in Newberg with her children – Maddi, Jordan and Cameron – and attends Newberg Fellowship.

Amy Ocker, employed as the university’s science outreach coordinator from 2001 to 2004, has returned to George Fox to serve in the same position. In the four years since she last worked on campus, Amy has been a science instructor at Westside Christian High School in Lake Oswego.  She also gained teaching experience at George Fox as an adjunct lab instructor for the biology department in the early 2000s. Amy earned both a bachelor’s degree (biology) and a master’s degree (MAT program) from George Fox. She lives in Dundee with husband Jared (an employee in IT), and they have an adopted daughter from India, Sunita Ruth. Amy attends 2nd Street Community Church in Newberg.

Erin Macy (Admissions) left the university to travel throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, New Zealand and Africa with her husband, John. Their blog can be read at johnanderinmacy.com. They plan to travel for nine months and do some missions work during the trip.

Ed Higgins (Writing/Literature) wrote a review essay on the book Future Americas (John Helfers and Martin H. Greenberg, eds) in the Summer 2008 issue of Science Fiction Research Association Review.

Mark David Hall (Political Science) was one of five featured speakers at a conference on America’s forgotten founders at the University of Louisville Sept. 12-13. He spoke on Roger Sherman’s contributions to creation of the American republic, and he and Gary L. Gregg released the results of their national survey on America’s most important but neglected founders. The two have edited a book based on their survey entitled America’s Forgotten Founders.

Bruce Strom (School of Professional Studies) wrote a column, “Why would you start a business in a down economy,” for the Sept. 10 issue of the Idaho Press-Tribune.

Sept. 16    Jan Amerson
Sept. 17    MaryKate Morse, Christee Wise
Sept. 18    Darryl Brown
Sept. 20    Robert Melendy
Sept. 21    Claudia Hirsch, Heidi Thomason
Sept. 22    Josh Nauman
Sept. 23    Rhonda Bonham
Sept. 25    Debbie Berho, Marc Shelton, Elizabeth Todd
Sept. 27    John Warton
Sept. 29    Bob Bredemeier

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Residence Life and the Newberg Fire Department will host a mock residence hall room burning to promote fire safety.  Please join us on the quad at 11:30 a.m. for the big event.